Tied To The Ocean Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - Tied To The Ocean
Tied To The Ocean 2015
Tied To The OceanCraig WaddellTied To The Ocean
Tied To The Ocean2015
oil on linen
76 x 87 cm
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What Lies Beneath Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - What Lies Beneath
What Lies Beneath 2015
What Lies BeneathCraig WaddellWhat Lies Beneath
What Lies Beneath2015
oil on linen
152 x 132 cm
$13,500 SOLD  ENQUIRE
Sounds Of Distant Shores Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - Sounds Of Distant Shores
Sounds Of Distant Shores 2015
Sounds Of Distant ShoresCraig WaddellSounds Of Distant Shores
Sounds Of Distant Shores2015
oil on linen
171 x 232 cm
$18,000 SOLD  ENQUIRE
On Our Boat Made Of Flowers Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - On Our Boat Made Of Flowers
On Our Boat Made Of Flowers 2015
On Our Boat Made Of FlowersCraig WaddellOn Our Boat Made Of Flowers
On Our Boat Made Of Flowers2015
oil on linen
87 x 76 cm
$6,500 SOLD  ENQUIRE
Reflected Memories Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - Reflected Memories
Reflected Memories 2015
Reflected MemoriesCraig WaddellReflected Memories
Reflected Memories2015
oil on linen
123 x 90 cm
$9,000 SOLD  ENQUIRE
Floating On A Sea Of Love Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - Floating On A Sea Of Love
Floating On A Sea Of Love 2015
Floating On A Sea Of LoveCraig WaddellFloating On A Sea Of Love
Floating On A Sea Of Love2015
oil on linen
87 x 76 cm
$6,500 SOLD  ENQUIRE
The Swell Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - The Swell
The Swell 2015
The SwellCraig WaddellThe Swell
The Swell2015
oil on linen
51 x 46 cm
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Sea Of Desire Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - Sea Of Desire
Sea Of Desire 2015
Sea Of DesireCraig WaddellSea Of Desire
Sea Of Desire2015
oil on linen
115 x 115 cm
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The Cove Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - The Cove
The Cove 2015
The CoveCraig WaddellThe Cove
The Cove2015
oil on linen
87 x 76 cm
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Forever In My Heart Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - Forever In My Heart
Forever In My Heart 2015
Forever In My HeartCraig WaddellForever In My Heart
Forever In My Heart2015
oil on linen
62 x 52 cm
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Drunk As Drunk On Sea Air Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - Drunk As Drunk On Sea Air
Drunk As Drunk On Sea Air 2015
Drunk As Drunk On Sea AirCraig WaddellDrunk As Drunk On Sea Air
Drunk As Drunk On Sea Air2015
oil on linen
92 x 76 cm
$6,500 SOLD  ENQUIRE
Drifting Memories Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - Drifting Memories
Drifting Memories 2015
Drifting MemoriesCraig WaddellDrifting Memories
Drifting Memories2015
oil on linen
110 x 90 cm
$9,000  ENQUIRE
Under The Net Of Kisses Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - Under The Net Of Kisses
Under The Net Of Kisses 2015
Under The Net Of KissesCraig WaddellUnder The Net Of Kisses
Under The Net Of Kisses2015
oil on linen
92 x 76 cm
$6,500  ENQUIRE
You Have Wandered Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - You Have Wandered
You Have Wandered 2015
You Have WanderedCraig WaddellYou Have Wandered
You Have Wandered2015
oil on linen
92 x 76 cm
$6,500 SOLD  ENQUIRE
Voyager Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - Voyager
Voyager 2015
VoyagerCraig WaddellVoyager
Voyager2015
oil on linen
92 x 76 cm
$6,500  ENQUIRE
Bountiful Love Craig Waddell Craig Waddell - Bountiful Love
Bountiful Love 2015
Bountiful LoveCraig WaddellBountiful Love
Bountiful Love2015
oil on linen
110 x 110 cm
$9,500  ENQUIRE

Sensual and tactile, Craig Waddell’s work celebrates both the sublime and the imperfect. Laying down paint, wet into wet, observing while intuitive colour and gesture build and change, he destroys, renews and resurrects images from everyday life.

A close attunement to the natural world began during childhood on his family farm. Whether painting a rooster as a riff on contemporary portraiture, or a protea as an evocation of love, he is confident journeying through colour choices, compositional risks, scraping back and starting fresh, ultimately building several layers of paint to finish the work. The results, he says, are the product of his fundamental interest in paint – through his immersion in the “field of activity” that is the canvas. Waddell’s earthy, emotional honesty provides a refreshing take on masculine use of paint without fear of beauty.

Waddell has exhibited widely throughout Australia and received numerous prizes, awards and residencies, most notably winning the Mosman Prize in 2010, the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize and the Tattersall’s Art Prize for Landscape Painting in 2005, and the Paddington and the Norville Australian Landscape Prizes both in 2004. He has also been a finalist in the Archibald Prize, the Sulman Prize, the Glover Prize for Landscape Painting and the Dobell Drawing Prize.

Collections include Artbank, the Macquarie Group Collection, the Royal Bank of Scotland, Hawkesbury Regional Gallery, Maitland Regional Gallery and the Allen’s Arthur Robinson art collection. Carol Schwarzman

3 – 21 August 2015
Craig Waddell ‘Headlands’

11 June 2014 – 19 July 2014
Craig Waddell ‘Songs of the Heart’

28 May 2013 – 15 June 2013
Craig Waddell ‘Beautiful Creatures’